Roll-paper holder and cutter.



W. 0. DALY. ROLL PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 28, 1907.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

WILLIAM OLIVER DALY, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

ROLL-PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 28, 1907.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Serial No. 399,568.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM OLIVER DALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roll-Paper Holders and Cutters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in roll paper holders and cutters, and is especially designed for store service wherein it is desirable, in wrapping an article to feed and cut the paper from either side of the machine and thus enable the clerk to wrap an article on either side of the counter.

For the purpose of disclosure reference is had to the accompanying drawings illustrating a practical embodiment of the invention, the particular features of novelty being pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device with the roll of paper removed. Fig. 2 is a view in end elevation showing the knives and their supporting arms in their normal position of engagement with the roll of paper, and showing the same parts in dotted lines when thrown down into their lowermost positions to enable a roll of paper to be inserted in place. Fig. 3 is a local fragmentary view of the up er end of one of the uprights. Fig. 4 is an e evation of one of the supporting arms for the knives. Fig. 5 is a view looking from the rear of one of the cross arms and uprights, and Fig. 6 is a view of the spindle for supporting a roll of paper.

A, A designate uprights or standards rovided with the base supports B, B, an at their upper ends having on their inside faces offsets having recesses or guide-ways c for the reception of the ends of the roll paper spindle d, E designating tie rods between the standards A provided with the usual fastening nuts 6.

F, F designate cross arms carried by the standards A, and at their outer ends are cutaway as at f forming the shoulders f, which limit the movement of the knife supporting rods hereinafter referred to, the recessed edge X being formed to allow the knife supporting rods to be swung around on their pivots.

G are the knife supporting rods provided at one end with a pivot pin 9, inserted in an aperture f extending transversely through the ends of each of the cross arms. At the upper end the knife supporting arms are flattened as at g and slightly inclined to form a support for the knives II. A set of knife supporting arms are mounted on each side of the paper roll support and extending across the device at each end thereof are the coiled springs I secured to the headed pins g, which springs tend to hold the knives in position against the roll of paper when the arms are disposed upwardly and when said arms are swung around on their )ivots said springs being disposed below t e pivotal axis of the knife supporting arms these arms will be held down in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The knives H, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2, are arranged with their cutting edges lying substantially in parallel lanes tangential of the roll of paper, the nives being reversely disposed, or in other words the cutting edge of one knife being directed outwardly away from said roll support and the cutting edge of the other knife being directed inwardly towards said roll support. It will also be noted, as already mentioned, that the knives are automatically held in engagement with the body portion of the roll of paper by the coiled springs I passing beneath the roll, as contradistinguished from other structures where from the disposition of the knives the same necessarily engage the paper after it has been reeled oif its roll.

What I claim is 1. The combination of a support for a roll of paper and a pair of knives, the cutting edges of said knives being disposed at o posite sides of the paper in substantialy parallel planes with one knife edge directed upwardly away from said roll support and the other knife edge directed inwardly towards said roll support, substantially as de scribed.

2. The combination of a support for a roll of paper, a knife located at one side of said roll and another knife located at the other side of said roll, the cutting edges of said knives lying in substantially parallel planes tangential to the roll of paper, with the cutting edge of one knife directed outwardly away from said roll support and the cutting edge of the other knife directed in the reverse direction and inwardly towards said roll support, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a support for aroll of paper, a pair of pivotally mounted arms on each side thereof, a horizontally-disposed knife carried by each pair of arms in alinement with the axis of said roll of paper, and a spring connection between said pairs of arms below the roll for holding said knives directly in engagement with the body portion of said roll of paper, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a support for a roll of paper, of a pair of arms mounted at each side thereof and pivotally mounted to swing on opposite sides of their pivotal axes, knives carried by said pairs of arms, and transverse springs connecting the end arms of each pair tending to draw said arms towards each other when disposed on either side of their pivotal axes, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a pair of upright end supports, socket members at the upper inside faces thereof adapted to receive the axle of a roll of paper, laterally-extending arms carried by said uprights, pivoted arms mounted on said lateral arms at each side of said supports, reversely-mounted knives supported by said arms with their cutting edges substantially in alinement with the axis of said roll of paper and coiled springs transversely connecting the end arms of said pairs of pivoted arms for holding said knives in engagement with the roll of paper, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I a'ffix lny-signature, in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM OLIVER DAT 1Y- Witnesses:

JEssIE SEELEY, J NO. E. MITCHELL. 

